Journey into Forever

                                             "Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope."                                                                        -Lamentations 3:21         Well, it's over.  December 26.  The presents are opened, the ham is eaten, the family is gone.  Back to "normal".  Whatever normal is.  Last night, while we were sitting in our recliners recuperating from the constant motion we have been in, my husband mentioned the Christmas letdown.  You know the feeling.....after all the hubbub, constant things to do and preparations to make, when Christmas is over there is a strange and rather stupid feeling.  Almost like ....really?  That's it????  It almost makes me ashamed to say it, but it's kind of a "That's all there is?", kind of feeling.  With all we have, and with all the wonderful things that happened at Christmas, how awful we would feel that way.       I don't think that feeling is unusual,

"The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai:  "Go to the great city of Ninevah and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me."  But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed to Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the L ORD .          - Jonah 1:1-3      We just watched the production of "Jonah" at Sight and Sound Theatres for the second time.  It is a powerful performance, with so many messages for us.  Although the play follows the scripture very closely, there are parts that have to be fictionalized to make it long enough to be a 2 1/2 hour production.  In this play, Jonah was angry with the Ninevites because during one of their sieges his father was killed.  The Bible does not state , however, why Jonah did not want the Ninevites to be spared.  Although Jonah's anger at Ninevah was  not mentioned in Jonah 1, we